The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-03-09
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FEEDING HORSES WHOLE GRAIN.

FEEDING HORSES WHOLE GRAIN.
Old horses become more ravenous
for fJod as their teeth become poorer
and will eat SO rapidly that half of
it will be swallowed without chew
ing. If it is not possible to give cut
hay moiStened with meal, there will
still tie some gain in cutting the feed
and mixing the whole grain with it.
The horse will eat it less greedily,
and in trying to pick out the grain
from the cut feed will chew and mix
it with the saliva, and thus digest it
more perfectly.
TREATMENT OF YOUNG CALVES.
Butchers always insist on having
calves designed for their use suckle
the COW, but if the calf is allowed to
suckle the cow as often as it pleases
it will soon dry her up, besides
iniuring itself. In nor cases milk
ing the COW by hand twice a day,
and giving the calf all the milk it
can eat, will fatten it faster than to
let it help itself. If allowed to suckle
at all it should be at regular inter
walls, and all the milk drawn from
the cow after the calf has taken
what il will.
THE PLUM ROT.
OF all fruits the plum is most liza,
Bile to overbear. If it were not for
the curculio to thin it trees would
break down with their excessive
loads. This great fruitfulness is
exhaustive Of vitality and requires
heavy feeding. especially with min
eral manures. All kinds of stone
fruits need large supplies of potash,
and it is very possibly lack of this
mineral that causcs pIums to rot in
seasons when they + over loaded
with a crop that the tree is unable
to mature.
MATURING GRASS LANDS.
There is this to be said in favor OF
drawing the manure on grass lands,
that none so applied is wasted.
Neither by wasting away on the
surface nor by filtering through the
soil "a it be lost. 1t is protected
from washing by the grass on the
ground, which catches the particles
of manure, and as for teaching away,
there is little danger of that from
the feeding roots of grass permeat-
ing every particle of soil and ready
to take every atom of plant food as
it comes within their reach.
WINTER RYE AS PROTECTION.
Loosely plowed soil is sure to be
deeply and frequently frozen during
the winter, and in an exposed situa-
ton or on a side hill it is certain to
waste materially, both by washing
away and blowing off. A good Gov
ering of Winter rye will shield the
surface from blowing, and its roots
will not only protect the soil from
washing away, but will seize any
soluble plant food from passing
away through drainage water. Rye
will grow in Winter at almost any
temperature above freezing so
there is little danger that anything
valuable will escape its feeding roots.
MIXED POTATOES FOR SEED.
Where a number of varieties of
potatoes are grown on the same farm,
it requires great care to prevent
mixing the seed. One or two pota-
toes Of similar appearance transfer
red from one bin to another will
work great mischief. The miscella-
neous or speckled appearance of a
load when composed Of several vari-
cites is greatly against it in market.
Potatoes of different varieties will
not cook evenly. If they are sim
liar i'll appearance the evil is worse
as it is impossible to assert them.
Nearly all the EARLY Rose varieties
found in market are mixed with
Late Rose, a coarse watery potato
of poor flavor and inclined to rot.
The potatoes do not get mixed after
planting. The evil is in the, seed,
and only careful selection to get
that undoubted pure will cure it.
FEED FOR YOUNG CALVES.
Milk is expensive in Winter, and
even where it is plentiful enough it
may not be convenient to spare suf:
ficient to keep a calf in thrifty con
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